10.12.2014

Read These Blogs

Totally Biased: Hari Kondabolu's Columbus Day Wish: Over 500 years later and Christopher Columbus is still the bane of Indians everywhere. In celebration of "Columbus Day," let us revisit this 2012 video of Hari Kondabolu breaking it down in a segment from the dearly departed Totally Biased.

Calling for a Model Minority Mutiny: #fergusonoctober: "Injustice is, ultimately, always, enforced with violence, and institutional injustice is enforced with state violence. Whether or not I or "we" are the target, the fact that the death toll in what sometimes feels like a war against Black communities continues unchecked is an indication of a failure of democracy, and a reminder of continuing injustice."

Unapologetic and Refusing to Remain Silent: With crowdsourced contributions from the Harvard community, four Harvard College students wrote a response to the anonymous e-mail threats that targeted Asian Americans, and mostly women: "Harvard is not an institution that erases barriers of gender, race, and other aspects of identity; rather, it is a place where Asian-American women still struggle for ownership in the classroom, in social spaces, walking down the street, their careers, and basically all facets of life."

How I Solved the Mystery of Fumiko Nishinaka: During her field placement at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle this past summer, Rachel Smith-Gay investigated the life of a family in the city's Japantown, eventually solving the mystery of a woman named Fumiko Nishinaka.

Lisa Ling: What I learned as an average student: The latest episode of Lisa Ling's This is Life explores the results of a Robert Graham's controversial project from the 80s, in which he sought to produce geniuses through a selective process of the human gene pool. Producing this episode made Ling reflect on her own childhood, and on what she learned as an average student.